Anthropic Targets $965B IPO Amid EU Clash and Agent Infrastructure Shift

Anthropic is quietly preparing for an October IPO with a $965B valuation, while its diplomatic friction with EU regulators escalates. Meanwhile, agent infrastructure is moving toward microVMs, with Perplexity's SPACE runtime reducing VM creation latency from 447ms to 89ms. The industry also sees a proposed self-regulatory framework for frontier AI facing skepticism as regulatory capture.